Momentum is building among Caspian Basin governments for a moratorium on sturgeon fishing, in order to protect the lucrative caviar trade. Informal discussions with fishermen, however, suggest that an ...

By Nizom Khodjayev in Astana The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm bells have been ringing that much louder in recent years. The issue is ...

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

The Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field is located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Baku and is the largest oilfield in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian basin.

On August 1, after eight years of bitter political intrigue, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company (BTC Co.) was founded during a document signing ceremony in London. Witnessed by ...

The U.S. government’s early estimates that the Caspian basin might hold from 100 billion to 200 billion barrels of oil–second only to the Persian Gulf’s 670 billion– appear to have been ...

The South Caspian Basin is polluting 440 tonnes (more than 970,000 pounds) of methane per hour, according to data collected by MethaneSAT.

The Precaspian Basin is one of the top global conventional basins in terms of total remaining recoverable resources, holding around 52 billion boe.

The country’s mud volcanoes are connected to the South Caspian Basin’s sprawling hydrocarbon system, which is known to spout flammable gases like methane along with signature muddy sludge.

The South Caspian Basin is polluting 440 tonnes (more than 970,000 pounds) of methane per hour, according to data collected by MethaneSAT.